Barbie Liss

Barbie is a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). She has a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology and is a certified Life Coach. Barbie offers trauma-informed psychotherapy, supporting clients in working through trauma, C-PTSD, anxiety, and life transitions.

With a holistic and integrated therapeutic approach, Barbie walks alongside her clients to nurture awareness and acceptance of all aspects of Self. In a space that brings safety, compassion, and non-judgment. Barbie works with clients to release shame, relieve distress, increase self-esteem, and walk toward empowered resilience. Through awareness of the mind-body connection, Barbie works with you to hold compassion to your story as you dig to find roots of negative beliefs, thoughts, and behaviours, and begin to plant seeds for a new narrative.

Barbie has profound lived experience through vicarious trauma and supporting survivors of sexual assault. As a Jewish woman with two of her three kids part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, Barbie’s therapeutic space is welcoming and inclusive. Personal experience and education has brought passion to practising intersectional feminism, and healing trauma, C-PTSD, and those navigating the path of self-reclamation. She challenges ageism and the idea that life has any kind of timeline.

Barbie worked many years as a personal trainer in a women’s gym, is certified in Energy Healing and Reiki, and has led international women’s retreats. Since participating in a groundbreaking restorative justice circle addressing the impacts of sexual violence, Barbie has been an advocate for restorative practice and survivor-centred healing. 

Incorporating modalities that include Narrative Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Family Systems, Barbie supports the belief that it is never too late to start a new chapter. She is here to explore your story with you, to reframe unhelpful beliefs, and to build tools needed to create your next chapters with fulfillment, purpose, and joy.